A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to save info. The SSDs are still fairly new and more pricey than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they're faster, so they are quite often used for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and hosting servers. An SSD is preferred because it does not have spinning disks that restrict its speed and can cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. A large number of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all the content that is accessed more often will be located on such drives, while all other content will be located on conventional HDDs. The main reason to use this kind of a setup is to balance the price and performance of their web hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs resulting from countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Hosting

Our innovative cloud Internet hosting platform employs only SSD drives, so in case you buy any of our hosting solutions, you'll take full advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard drives, so your files, databases and e-mails will all load from ultra fast SSDs. For even greater performance, we use caching SSDs. Multiple drives are used by our system for any file that's accessed more regularly and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to ensure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the main drives is lowered, so we can provide excellent performance for all types of Internet sites regardless of how many times they are accessed and avoid a situation where some websites are affected by too many reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also improves the lifespan of the main drives and decreases the possibility of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, we will keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all of the databases and e-mail messages. This way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load very quickly. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive site content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a couple of heavy Internet sites which generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes won't affect the other Internet sites which share the same drive. By reducing the overall load we also raise the lifespan of the main storage drives and decrease the possibility of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an additional level of stability for your content.